{"id":13017,"date":"2017-04-01T03:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=13017"},"modified":"2017-04-01T03:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T10:05:22","slug":"far-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/far-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Far From Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHe loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then will I declare to them, \u2018I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.45.7\"><b>Psalms 45:7<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.101.3\"><b>Psalms 101:3<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.\u00a0\u00a0A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.101.8\"><b>Psalms 101:8<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:66.21.27\"><b>Revelation 21:27<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb&#8217;s book of life<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:20.23.31\"><b>Proverbs 23:31<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.\u00a0\u00a0In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.\u00a0\u00a0Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:24.22.17\"><b>Jeremiah 22:17<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:28.7.6\"><b>Hosea 7:6<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:33.2.2\"><b>Micah 2:2<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:59.1.13\"><b>James 1:13<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Let no one say when he is tempted, \u201cI am being tempted by God,\u201d for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.\u00a0\u00a0But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.\u00a0\u00a0Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:45.12.9\"><b>Romans 12:9<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.97.10\"><b>Psalms 97:10<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.<\/p>\n<p>It is our choice what we focus our eyes and heart upon. \u00a0For sure there is plenty in this world that so easily takes our focus and attention away from humbly serving, obeying, honoring and glorifying God. Why are we so easily distracted? \u00a0What can we do to lessen or remove these distractions? \u00a0Knowing and understanding God&#8217;s word and His purpose for our lives will change our focus, wants, and desires. \u00a0Staying in his word will result in changing our heart. \u00a0Day after day we are refreshed by it. \u00a0Morning by morning it is made new and revives our soul. \u00a0The warnings are clear for those who hang on to this world and what it has to offer, and as well to those who want to stand on the fence of this world and the one to come. \u00a0These people will encounter death, destruction, and will have no part in heaven. \u00a0Their lives will forever be in hell. \u00a0Choose to keep your eyes, heart, mind, and soul focused on God, through His word each day. \u00a0Commit to humbly serving, obeying, honoring, and glorifying Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.\u201d \u201cAnd then will I declare to them, \u2018I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.\u201c \u201cBut we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/far-from-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Far From Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1400,3426,3430,3427,2584,521,3425,95,806,3083,3432,1304,164,2582,502,782,3435,43,171,4,177,233,3428,407,3434,3258,222,121,208,3431,2385,511,3433,803,1723,451,3429,429],"class_list":["post-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-anger","tag-anointed","tag-bites","tag-cling","tag-covet","tag-death","tag-declare","tag-desire","tag-destroyed","tag-detestable","tag-dishonest","tag-enticed","tag-evil","tag-evildoers","tag-eyes","tag-fire","tag-genuine","tag-gladness","tag-good","tag-heart","tag-hold-fast","tag-justice","tag-lambs-book-of-life","tag-lawlessness","tag-lured","tag-oppression","tag-preserve","tag-righteousness","tag-saints","tag-serpent","tag-souls","tag-steadfast-love","tag-tempted","tag-unclean","tag-violence","tag-wickedness","tag-wine","tag-worthless"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13019,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions\/13019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}